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How to secure your application’s migration to the cloud: A guide

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To compete in today’s competitive and digital business environment, organisations need to embrace the cloud. The rise of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) firms has meant that enterprises have been able to focus on their core capabilities while leveraging their IaaS partners’ expertise. As a result, the maintenance and running costs of infrastructure have reduced, and companies are far more efficient in how they deploy resources. While a move to the cloud brings a lot of business optimization, it leaves organisations  vulnerable to potential security breaches . In one  recent study  conducted by Digital Shadows, researchers found traces of over 2.3 billion files accessible to the general public on cloud storage resources such as Amazon S3 buckets, SMB enabled file shares, and NAS drives. You definitely don’t want components of your app’s source code to accidentally end up on someone’s scraping radar. To secure your product’s move to the cloud, you must implement these th...

‘Most loved’ programming language Rust now has its own foundation

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Rust, the world’s “most loved” programming language, now has its own independent foundation. The language was originally designed by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla Research and has ranked  “most loved”  in Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey for the past five years. In  a blog post , the Rust Foundation wrote: “Mozilla, the original home of the Rust project, has transferred all trademark and infrastructure assets, including the crates.io package registry, to the Rust Foundation.  We’re filled with gratitude for Mozilla whose thoughtful incubation of the project from its inception as a research project in 2010, to establishing independent governance with the 1.0 release in 2015, has led us to this moment, as we set out as a fully independent organization. Without their support, we wouldn’t find ourselves in the position we do today.” The syntax of Rust is similar to C and C++ and shares some control flow keywords like ‘if’, ‘else’, ‘while’, and ‘for’. However, the lang...